# Oscar Domínguez artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/oscar-dominguez/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:20:38.418Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Surrealism
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Graphic art and illustration, Photography, Tapestry and textile design

## Portrait

![Oscar Domínguez](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Busto_de_%C3%93scar_Dom%C3%ADnguez%2C_Tacoronte.JPG/1280px-Busto_de_%C3%93scar_Dom%C3%ADnguez%2C_Tacoronte.JPG)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busto_de_%C3%93scar_Dom%C3%ADnguez,_Tacoronte.JPG

## About Oscar Domínguez

Óscar Domínguez (1906–1957) was a Spanish painter and sculptor associated with Surrealism. Getty’s authority record also preserves several forms of his name, including Oscar Dominguez, Oscar Domínguez Palazón, and Oscar Manuel Domínguez Palazón. These variants are useful when matching museum, library, catalogue, and auction records. Public references describe activity beyond painting and sculpture, including graphic art, illustration, photography, commercial art, tapestry design, and textile work. Collectors may therefore encounter his name attached to several kinds of objects rather than to paintings alone. Surrealism is the clearest documented movement context in the supplied sources. The strongest returned authority records agree on the lifespan 1906–1957, although one collected French-language reference gives 1905 as the birth year. This profile consequently leaves his exact birth and death dates unresolved and avoids assigning unsupported subjects, series, or career periods.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Domínguez may be catalogued as paintings or sculptures, while the broader public biography also identifies graphic art, illustration, photography, tapestry design, and textile work. These categories help organize an initial auction or appraisal search, but the supplied evidence does not show how frequently each type appears at auction. Subjects, named series, techniques, and edition practices should be established from the individual object and stronger work-specific documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first reconcile the object's attribution with the artist's documented name variants, since accented, unaccented, abbreviated, and extended forms occur in authority records. The supplied sources support separating paintings, sculpture, graphic work, illustration, photography, tapestry, and textile work when selecting comparisons. Appraisily's public artist page provides an auction-record context, but the collected excerpt does not expose individual lots or results. A defensible valuation therefore requires object-level examination and relevant public comparables, including their sale dates and realized prices when available. This source pack alone does not support claims about price direction, scarcity, or the specific effects of condition, provenance, edition, subject, or date.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007847
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q293314
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Dom%C3%ADnguez
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Dom%C3%ADnguez
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Dom%C3%ADnguez
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/oscar-dominguez/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busto_de_%C3%93scar_Dom%C3%ADnguez,_Tacoronte.JPG